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| “ | Nick Fury: If it isn't Hank Pym. Hank Pym: The balls you have to come here and stand over her grave. Nick Fury: Oh don’t worry about her. I doubt she'd mind, considering she's dead. Hank Pym: She died, because S.H.I.E.L.D. killed her. She died because of you! Nick Fury: Agent Hope Van Dyne was killed on a mission outside Odessa, Ukraine. Hank Pym: Agent? She was my daughter! My little girl! She missed her mother, and you exploited that! Nick Fury: Her mother was an agent? Hank Pym: Don't play the fool with me, Fury. You filled her head with nonsense about protecting humanity and saving the world. You just left out how she died the same way her mother did: doing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s dirty work! Nick Fury: And that gave you permission to murder them? Anthony Stark? Clint Barton? Bruce Banner? Natasha Romanoff? Hank Pym: You took everything from me. I wanted you to hurt. To witness everything you've ever worked for... fought for... hoped for... die! Nick Fury: And what of Thor, Prince of Asgard? Hank Pym: Goldilocks? You would have recruited him in a heartbeat. Sold him some malarkey about being a hero. That's what you do. What S.H.I.E.L.D. has always done. Find others to fight your battles. Nick Fury: That's it? You murdered him because you could? Hank Pym: His death was a favor. Yours will be a triumph. |
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| ~ Yellowjacket explaining to Loki (disguised as Nick Fury) why he killed the Avengers. |
Henry Jonathan "Hank" Pym, also known as Yellowjacket, is the main antagonist of "What If... the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?", the third episode of the Marvel animated anthology series What If...?.
He is the inventor of size-changing "Pym Particles" and a former superhero working for S.H.I.E.L.D. as Ant-Man. However, after the death of his wife and daughter, he became disgruntled against Nick Fury, and decided to take revenge on him by killing every potential member for his "Avengers Initiative".
Like his original version, he was voiced by Michael Douglas, who also played Gordon Gekko in the Wall Street duology, William Foster in Falling Down and Steven Taylor in A Perfect Murder.
Appearance[]
Pym's Yellowjacket suit is a modified version of his Ant-Man suit, now with a yellow-black color scheme, and four laser "stingers" attached to its torso.
Biography[]
Prior to his retirement, Hank Pym used to work as the superheroic Ant-Man under the command of S.H.I.E.L.D., alongside his wife Janet van Dyne, aka the Wasp, using their size-changing abilities to complete their missions. They would have a daughter name Hope. However, during a mission to disable a Soviet nuclear missile, Janet was forced to shrink down to subatomic size to succeed in doing so, causing her to be trapped in the Quantum Realm in the process. A grief-stricken Pym resigned from S.H.I.E.L.D. not long after. Years later, Hope would join S.H.I.E.L.D. and work under the command of Nick Fury. However, she would be killed in 2009 during a mission outside Odessa, Ukraine, presumably by the Winter Soldier. This would push Pym to his breaking point and result in him declaring revenge against Fury.
Pym would create the Yellowjacket suit and enact his revenge by killing the candidates for Fury's Avengers Initiative one by one. He would start by sneaking into the lithium dioxide syringe Natasha Romanoff provided Tony Stark via his shrinking abilities and killing him from the inside. He would then proceed to cause Hawkeye to accidentally misfire his arrow and kill Thor Odinson, indirectly allowing Loki Laufeyson to become Crown Prince of Asgard and provoke war against them. Afterwards, he would kill Hawkeye in his prison cell, and go on to kill the Hulk by planting a Pym Particle on his irradiated heart, causing him to swell and explode.
He would go on to track down and murder Natasha as she discovered that he was behind the killing spree, but not before she alerted Fury of this. Eventually, Fury decides to make a pact with Loki to help defeat Pym. Loki disguises himself as Fury as he meets Pym at Hope's grave, and the two proceed to battle, with Loki using his sorcery to overpower Pym. After his defeat, Pym is taken under the custody of Asgard to pay for his involvement in Thor's death, with his fate currently being unknown, though it's highly possible that Hank will spend the rest of his days behind the bars of an Asgardian cell or was executed under the orders of either Loki or Odin.
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Trivia[]
- In the comics, the Yellowjacket is one of the many identities Hank Pym assumed, during which Pym went through mental issues and became incredibly hostile towards Janet for a period of time.
- Pym's line to the Fury-disguised Loki, "You took everything from me" is a reference to Wanda Maximoff's line in Avengers: Endgame, when she is about to kill the 2014 version of Thanos to avenge Vision.
- It's likely that part of the reason that Hank Pym turned so murderous in this timeline is that continued exposure to the Yellowjacket particles warped his mind, much like how it did to Darren Cross in the first Ant-Man film.
External Links[]
- The Original Hank Pym on the Heroes Wiki
